Please pray for Merle Burkholder, Stephen Burkholder, Dwight Waldner and Raymond Burkholder as we travel to Myanmar for a MTM leadership conference. Our MTM ministry trip dates are October 15-24. We will be ministering in the Irrawaddy delta region as well as in Mandalay region of Myanmar. Please do pray for physical strength and endourance for the full…
“Go ye therefore and teach all nations” is a command that MTM is working at fulfilling through their “Leadership Training Conferences.” I had the privilege of being with Brother Raymond Burkholder in Lahore, Pakistan from September 17-26. It was so rewarding for me to see these church leaders encouraged. Many of them came from a…
God has clearly opened the door for MTM to conduct a pastors leadership conference in an exclusively Muslim country where Americans, on the most part, are not at all appreciated. Please be in much prayer as Marvin Troyer (Goshen IN) and myself travel to P_____n this weekend and conduct a native leadership conference September 19-23. Our native…
On August 27th Raymond Burkholder, Joyce and I left for Thimpu, Bhutan for a MTM Bible conference. This was the 23rd conference since the MTM’s beginning. Bhutan’s population is just under 700,000 and less than .5 % are Christians. Most of the people are Buddhist. The government is Buddhist. So the Christians there do face…
It is very hard to believe that six weeks can fly so fast. Nevertheless our time in America was just great. One very special highlight was simply spending time with our family. We spend three days with Duane & Leann and their family in Batesburg, South Carolina. We went blueberry picking and picked twenty pounds in about one and…
The morning air hung thick and heavy over the village of Bardaghat (Nepal) as the orange sun rose slowly in the eastern sky. Roosters crowed and dogs barked proclaiming praise to their creator. A beggar, in crab like fashion, crawled toward the bus stop hoping to secure his daily needs. Busses and trucks belched smoke…
Presently we are in the first semester, second term, here at the IGo Bible Institude in Chiang Mai, Thailand. I am teaching the book of beginings (Genesis) this term. We have a most wonderful group of students with open hearts desiring to go deeper with the Lord. We have just completed the first week of this three…
The past three weeks have been the most stretching MTM conference I have ever done. Our first conference in Nepal had the ministry team trekking in the foothills of the Himalayas. First we drove for 4-5 hours in a four wheel drive vehicle until there basically were no roads any more….and while we were driving sometimes I…
I have just returned back home to Thailand April 28th after a week of revival meetings in Holmes county Ohio. It is always a great blessing to be among a people who open their hearts to let God plow upon them and then respond to Gods call upon their lives. Blessed be God! A very…
Special credits to brother Delmar Penner for granting me permission to clip some scenes from the IGo DVD. Also special credit to the SMBI Sharon Singers who sing the song. May this inspire all of us to take Gods love into the world.
